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Learning: No longer a textbook case

April 29, 2011  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Scholars and Scientists, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories

Switching from rigid, linear textbooks to technology such as iPads alone won’t boost student performance – so a team of researchers at Wake Forest has turned the classroom upside down, allowing students to tailor each course to their own learning style.

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Tips for building a business

April 29, 2011  |   Alumni, For Alumni, School of Business, Top Stories

The Schools of Business Family Business Center and Business North Carolina magazine presented the N.C. Family Business of the Year Awards. Honorees include Prentiss Baker III (’65), Russ Stephenson (’60), Philip Kelley Sr. (MBA ’77, P ’11) and Roger Vaughn (’74).

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Chasing away the exam blues

April 29, 2011  |   Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Life on Campus, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Kites, balloons, food and decorations. Sounds like a party, and, in a sense, it is — Wake the Library is a semiannual tradition that heralds the start of exam-week frenzy.

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Painting in the Louvre

April 29, 2011  |   Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Imagine standing in the footprints of Mary Cassatt and Paul Cézanne, copying the masters in the Musée du Louvre to improve your artistic talents. Junior Amanda Bowers doesn’t have to imagine. She has been living the experience.

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Preparing for severe weather

April 28, 2011  |   Community, Top Stories, University Announcement

In light of recent tornadoes across the South, the University encourages students, staff and faculty to review information on the Wake Alert website relating to tornadoes and other types of severe weather.

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Ten seniors named WF Fellows

April 28, 2011  |   For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Ten seniors have been named Wake Forest Fellows and will work in the President’s Office, Information Systems, University Advancement and in other offices for the next year.

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Inspiring exercise in seniors

April 27, 2011  |   Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

A research study by Wake Forest health and exercise science professors led to the development of a national award-winning exercise program to help seniors increase lower body strength at a local retirement community.

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Living the American Dream

April 27, 2011  |   Community, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

“’The American Dream’ is the belief that, in the United States of America, hard work will lead to a better life, financial security, and home ownership,” said Margaret Supplee Smith, Harold W. Tribble Professor of Art, who teaches a first-year seminar on the topic.

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The lessons of Vietnam literature

April 26, 2011  |   Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Research, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Students in Kathleen McClancy’s seminar class are completing their semester-long study of how books and films depicting the Vietnam War created the Vietnam mystique and the sway the war still holds over Americans, 36 years after the war ended.

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Physics major wins Goldwater honor

April 25, 2011  |   For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

A fascination with physics put Claire McLellan, a junior from Winchester, Va., on a path to win a Goldwater Scholarship.  McLellan was recently selected as one of 275 students from around the country to earn the scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year.

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